Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-12-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The report tQet SInllH auu hiiin Anu
fought near London is denied.
This will be the fret Congress s.nce re-
construction times without coored Repre-
sentative or Senator.
Algernon S. Sullivan, the well-known
lawyer, died at his residence, in New York,
last night, of typhoid fever.
The negotiations between France and
England looking to the working ofthe chan
mel telegraph wires promise favorably.
The socialists made no attempt to carry
out their threatened demonstrations in Ira
falgar Square or Hyde Park, Londan, yes
terday.
The Morning Post, of London. III ils issue
of yesterday, declares that certain Parnell-
ties recently urged the Fenians to murder
Lord Harrington. which they scornfully re-
fused to do.
George Wiper a soldier in the Salvation
Army, was arrested il Washington on Sat
urday and taken to Baltimore on the charge
of rotbipg James B. Mills, in that city, on
November II. Of $3.50.
The schooner H 3 Griffin has arrived ut
Worcester, Mass, with 100000 pounds Of
COO fish from the Grand Banks. Her total
catch was 100000 pounds, the largest ever
made by any New England vessel.
10 eph V. Kelly, who has been in the EN-
ploy Of several firms in Philadelphia and
who has wife in Washington, has eloped
with Rachel Stove, 1G year-old maiden,
who lived with her grandmother in Phla-
delphia.
TIE London police keep sharp watch Gu
the movements Of Sullivan, the pugilist.
Mitchell ia said TO be determined to fight
without gloves. Il Is thought there will be
desperate fghtif the police do not sue
coed in preventing it.
Representative S. S. Cox, OF New York,
who presided at the democratic caucus 10
Washington Saturday night. said that thirty
years ago he first entered democratic eau,
Gus, and he was the only person present who
was in that Thirty-ffth Congress.
On telegram from Attorney General
Garland the mayor and city council of Lin
coin, Neb, who were under arrest for COZ
tempt of court, have been released on bail.
The United States Supreme Court has set
December II for hearing on the habehs cor.
pus application.
The annual report of the Secretary of the
Interior was made public last night. 10 the
first portion of the report, relating to the
mediate repeal of the pre- emption laws, the
timber-culture acts and the REIMBURSEMENT
acts, and also the cash entry laws and the
desert land law.
A handsome young woman named Nellie
Coe, who lived in the Amsterdam Flats,
New York City, died under mysterious cir
cumstances yesterday. Her fancee, An
drew Pickett, at her request remained in the
building with her Saturday night. YesteV-
day morning she called him to get her a
glass Of water, and after drinking it she
dropped dead. Whether it is case of sui
eide or natural death is not known.
The fan house at Waddell's Shaft, near
Wikesbarre, Pa, was entirely destroyed by
fire on Saturday evening. The fan supplied
air for the miners at work in the mine, and
when it had ceased the seventy miners below
must have been suffocated in a short time
A hero named William Skedman went down
the mice and warned the Iuen OF their dan
ger, ard all escaped unirjured with the ex
caption of a boy named Warner, who was
caught by the carriage at the foot of tho
slope and probably fatally injured.